My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam.
I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

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I think the pope is on the right path. I'd like to see more Muslims respond to last year's call to dialogue based on reason. The Muslims who want to get rid of terrorism in their religion have every interest in engaging Catholics (and other Christians) on religious issues using reason-- thereby creating understanding and fostering trust. I haven't followed this file very closely, but I can't see I've seen a LOT of openness from Muslims on this matter. Maybe they don't understand what's at stake and their interest in this kind of interreligious dialogue (especially on these points).

If a religion - Catholic or Islam - teaches that all those who dont follow it are going to spend eternity in hell... well, the lives of unbelievers are worthless. Further, anyone who believes this has an overriding duty to prevent people from leaving the religion. Its for their own sakes - some violence, intimidation, torture and killing in this life is perfectly justified if it is able to save people in the next.

What I dont understand is why Catholics, and all other christian denominations, arn't equally strict. Some of the fundamentalists are (There exist 'youth camps' where christian parents can send children who stray from the faith for the type of treatment that would violate the geneva conventions if user on prisoners of war in order to restore their faith), but mostly they dont even come close. Why do they tolerate heresy, when they state their belief that heresy can condemn people to hell?

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My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam.
I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)